No Experience Necessary
He had no experience in the political arena, yet became the mayor's Chief of Staff.
He had no experience in urban transportation, yet became the head of the CTA.
He has no experience in teaching or education, and is poised to become head of one of the largest and most troubled public school systems in the nation.
Mayor Richard Daley is considering CTA President Ron Huberman as a potential successor to Arne Duncan in running the city's public school system, sources told the Tribune on Friday.
The mayor could make his selection as early as next week, said a source familiar with the selection process.
Like Duncan, who left to become U.S. education secretary for President Barack Obama, Huberman does not have a teaching background. Huberman headed the city's Office of Emergency Management and Communications for about a year after nine years with the Chicago Police Department.
In 2005, Daley named Huberman his chief of staff following a series of City Hall scandals. In April 2007, the mayor tapped Huberman to lead the financially troubled Chicago Transit Authority.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 9:07 AM
126 Comments:
what is with this guy Huberman Is he the second coming of Christ?
I wonder what he has on Daley?
Tell me how this is any different from how the mayor implanted "little shanks" Masters into OUR CPD!! And we've all seen how successful that's been for J-Fed and the troops!
I'm Speechless!!!!!!!
They've brought the three of them up to the O-R on a giant gurney. The surgeons must perform a sphincterotomy on Daley to get the tongues of Huberman and Weis out of hizzoner's colon.
The crowbar didn't work.
Hey, maybe he can get pension credit for being head of the schools. You know, it's a security job first and foremost.
Someone better let the teachers Union know he may try to jump on thier pension, he did teach at the academy a couple days.
He's got to have pictures of somebody big.
I wonder if the shmuck will still try to claim pension money.
I hate this fucking city.
Heard he was related to Ariel Sharon in Israel. I know he is related to Rahm Emanuel.....
Larry Guy is officially fired. Dont do anyhying. If you do and get jammed its your own fault.
This "wonder boy" is just going around collecting pensions in the different city jobs. Keep an eye on him, don't let him steal from future pensions!!
First, I think Ron must be a very bright guy..not my type exactly, but hey it's the new millenium, I gots to go with the flow. Second, Hizzoner must not see him as a political threat down the road, which is funny since he's creating an unbelievable resume' for him. Even if he only had his ticket punched in all those city departments, while he had that cup of coffee, and moved on to the next, you could easily be persuaded to try this guy as the new head of whatever. So is this a case of the Mayor recognizing that Huberman's intellect can handle things but that his character keeps him from being an eventual political adversary? And I don't mean to dis you Ron, since it's practically all been said here before, it's just hard to get over the "wunderkind" aspect of your career; I mean ask Dougie Howser how things turned out in the end. Anyway, if the Federal spigot opens up for CPS he'll look like he's doing wonderfuly...good luck.
Holy Space Hubble Batman!!!
Bull Shit Talks in this Town.
A-1 Bull shit artists and other illusionists always did well within our organization; city, municipal & state governments and national politics.
The top bullshitters on the Dept are:
The Walrus
Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull
Masters of the Universe
Downtown "Charlie" Brownie
Teddy Bear O'Freak
Darth "Skull" Vader
Johnton Ballooning
JJ Jacko
Beaten Cueballer
Mrs. 007
J-Pud & Co...
cooo cooo! cooo cooo!
Huberman is not qualified to run the Chicago Public Schools.
What the public schools need is an enema.
Wait............he's just the right guy.
good grief. how can you stand living in chicago?
This time I respectfully disagree with you SCC. He mastered the art of being a politically expedient martinet and yes man.
What a loserman.
Daley "tapped" Huberman? ugh...
thats why rich daley is called the "king maker"
must be nice to know such a powerful man.
Does he get a seperate pension for working in all these departments? Police, City Hall, CTA and now Chicago Education? He'll retire in a few short years. And like everything else Democrat-associated, no one will say anything. Another chapter in the Emperor Obama's New Clothes storybook. Who's willing to be the little boy in this story who speaks up and say "Hey! He's not wearing anything at all!"?
You are one jealous fuck. 5 years experience as a patrolman. Did alot more work then half the fucks on this site. As and ADS was a supervisor did alot more supervision then half the superviros on this site. Eecutive managment experience is what is needed to run large scale burracracies such as CTA and CPS. He has that.
All I can say is you are jealous of a guy who works hard to move up the ladder. On with the lies, personal shots and outright hatred filled posts. At least in this one post you got a little bit of the truth.
The stupidity continues! Did'nt his mom give daley some large donations? duncan gets moved up to make the nations schools as crappy as his cps! wonder if nationwide they will stop the fans from the "shootouts at the old west mentality?"
We (police officers and FOP members) will have to be vigilant for attempts by Huberman to have any Chicago Public School time factored in his police pension.
Mike Shields, are you listening? Get out your camcorder, Huberman may try again.
Just wait: 2010: Huberman for governor!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
This is a joke right??
You know what... Why dont you just make him our fucking appointed Illinois Senator and call it day. That way he can collect from three differnt pensions. Huberman aka "the real police" is the brightest fucking mind in Illinois. I'm surprised he didnt get a cabinet position in Washington next to the "chosen one."
"Jack-of-all-trades. And master of none."
AAAAWWWWW, come on SCC, give credit where credit is due! He's a great "Political Hack" an excelent "Scam Artist", and a shit-load of other things, and if I said that, it would make me a homo-phobe.
Just remember: THIS IS THE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
This guy has a shelf life of three years in each of his jobs, at best. Most observers would regard his constant job shuffling as incompetence. Please, just give him something BEFORE Weis pulls the plug and leaves an opening just begging to be filled by Huberman. (There's a joke in there for the Keesing Bandit. Maybe two.)
Can you say 'loss of major public transportation grant due to overlooking a little deadline'?
How's he gonna spin school superintendent into being entitled to our pension? Ron, you've got to keep your stories straight!!!
And when Jody leaves.....
Well SCC dam what you say huberman doesnt know cause Obviously "HE KNOWS SOMETHING"......
Put aside your cop hate of Huberman and recognize him as a very good administrator.
He turned around what was a complete disaster (CTA) to a reasonable service in 18 months with no massive infusion of cash.
In short, he made chicken salad out of chicken sht.
Chicago Public Schools should be thanking their stars they're getting this guy to lead them.
Everyone needs to ask the question . . .
What are Huberman's qualifications for any job in public service or safety?
The answer:
NONE
Are you suggesting that Huberman is connected through his mother and was taken care of all of his life while others, and more deserving, get passed up in the process, and robbing the city of a true leader to satisfy the rampant nepotism?!
HOW DARE YOU SIR, HOW DARE YOU!
What a joke....does'nt have a teaching/education background....obviously actual training or experience are not job qualifications in your part of the country...
Clout or skeleton knowledge? As my old German cabinet maker used to say, " This is not square und level".
This is something the nation needs to know. This kid got all the promotions because his family is extremely tight with the Daley's. He is a nobody a big fat ZERO!!! If the nation wants to know why Illinois, Crook county, and Chicago are so corrupt just look at this guy and ask yourself what are his qualification? CLOUT!
he must have a picture of shortshanks on the grassy knoll. with a step ladder of course
Whens the benefit for Larry Guy 017....Police Board fired him!
But go out there and be the Police...Yea Right?
The guy knows how to get things done. He's got great management skills.
rent the movie "The Music Man" and you will see ron's life(except for where he gets the girl)
"Not that there's anything wrong with that..."
SCC, I can't believe you did not see right through this move! Huberman will take over CPS and after a year of pissing away millions of our hard earned dollars, he will go back to our pension board to lay another false claim to a pension and insist that being in charge of CPS and its school security is the same as police work!!! PAY ME!!! I can see it now - "Under my watch CPS issued 831 letters to parents for students caught in the halls without a pass." waaaahhhhhhh hahahaha
So what? Our politicians have enough experience by being machine mafia.
Take for instance our embarrassment of a President.
According to the Tribune:
Recently during a visit to Ben's Chili Bowl in Washington, Obama paid his bill and answered "We straight" when the waitress asked if he wanted change back.
This is the face we now pesent to the world. Real classy and a great example to English speaking children everywhere.
Barry stop pretending you are from an "urban" background.
Send this synopsis to the NEWS! This is a f'n joke.
whatever.
Does it have anything to do with his parents being major contributors to the mayor?
The mayor will say that he's a "Great administrator!" COME ON.
Every department he goes to throws a party the day after he leaves!
Just arrogant
Hmmmmm...
There aren't many spots left for Huberman. Streets & San perhaps when old Tommy Byrne leaves?
WHY is Richie grooming him to be the NEXT MAYOR ? ? ?
WHAT ARE WE MISSING ? ? ?
But he DOES have a fondness for taking long, alluring, sexy strides down those long, echoing, dark hallways of Chicago's Public School's. And that my friend is something I think we can all agree was sorely lacking in Mr. Arne Duncan.
Jack of all trades or JAG of all trades?! He f*&ked up the CTA and now he'll f*%k up the schools!
To coin an old saying "Anyone can do this job, anyone." If and when shortshanks decides to leave he would have either put his son in or this squeaky clean puppet!
You go girl!!!!
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
LET ME GUESS LUBERMAN
BEING THE HEAD OF CPS IS LIKE BEING THE POLICE!
ALL THE OFFENDERS AND VICTIMS ARE STUDENT THEREFORE U DESERVE A POLICE PENSION.
HOW ABOUT THE CITY JUST GIVE U A PENSION FOR EACH OF THE JOBS YOU HAVE?
ITZ HARD TO BELIEVE DALEY SCREWED THE POLICE DEPARTMENT W/ JFED AN OUTSIDER AND HE IS DOING THE SAME TO SCHOOLS!
ALOT OF U MIGHT NOT GIVE A CRAP, BUT LOOK AT THOSE TAXES ON UR HOUSE
AN C HOW MUCH GOES TO THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM...
Ron Huberman is a prime example of a new organism -- the Pure Manager, operating in a world of theory and abstraction. They know nothing about anything they manage, yet remain salaried and secure with their Six Sigma "Black Belts."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Six_sigma
Not like when the boss started the business by digging the hole and pouring the slab first, and could run any machine in the place. Not like when the boss was "the first in the door on a man-with-a-gun call."
Not like when the boss was respected, is it?
Today? He's smooth, sleek, universal, inoffensive, indefinable...exactly what the Daley administration seems to seek out.
There used to be a few bosses at the top and many workers at the bottom. Now, the pyramid has been inverted; all we have are Hubermans on top of more Hubermans.
There are still three actual workers left in the factory, so to speak, but they're trying to get rid of them too.
Then and only then will we have the perfect manager-world as defined in the Dilbert cartoon -- "If we manage effectively enough, we can turn a profit without having any product at all."
This technique works so well that it's helped to trigger a depression.
Didn't Hubbie just make an astronomical fuck-up by missing a deadline for federal transportation funding?
In my office, he wouldn't be getting promoted, he'd be GONE!
Sounds like Rhonda: No experience necessary we will give you any spot u want
Hey its the Chicago way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well why not? He didn't fix anything at the CTA and what the hell, Arwney Duncan rode the coat tails of Paul Valis. CPS students who were shot rose while Arwney was awound. So let Ron "cupcake" Huberman have a go. I bet he does FABULOUSSSS!
I was once told that any CEO or President of a Government Job in Chicago only has to put in 3 or 4yrs in that agency and they are vested, that is correct vested. Which means they are entitled to a pension from that agency. Someone please investigate and exposed this theft. Also someone find out exactly how long he has held each of these positions.Sounds like every 3 yrs. he gets another political job in City Government.
Why not. The police department is run by a couple of lawyers with no law enforcement experience and a disgruntled ex-priest. J-Fed is just a figure head the aldercreatures can yell at. Keep voting democrat. Vote no on the Olympics.
Is Ronnie being groomed to be the next mayor? How many pensions is he collecting?
Oh My God!!! This is blatant fixing! I have lost faith in anything called ethics and fighting for justice. Again I will just quickly answer my calls accordingly, descretion abounding as we get in trouble in enforcing violations, and now that Washington is now Hollywood (just watch ET or Access Hollywood) hey we are all actors anyway right? Oh Huberman.....this is just so Hollywood!! ......grrrl Im gonna apply for American Idol ..... Oprah for Union Prez!!!
Officer Doodly Doo
Anonymous said...
Fuck SHORTSHANKS. Midget using our property taxes for his bullshit olympics. HEY Int. Olympic Comm.- WE IN CHICAGO DO NOT WANT THE OLYMPICS. WE LEAD THE COUNTRY IN HOMICIDES. TELL ALL VISITORS THEY ARE A POTENTIAL HOMICIDE VICTIM. The Chgo. Police Dept. could care less about the fucked-up Olympics and our idiot mayor Shanks.
1/23/2009 05:38:00 PM
Fuck you, you're gettin' them! We ain't giving the suitcases full of cash back to Daley.
signed, Olympic Committee (beyotch!)
Suckers!!!
SCC you can't go by rumors. If true....UNFUCKING BELIEVABLE!
OT: 2 more kids claim strip-searches
I hope these allegations are all false and they probably are.
Keep in mind that these pukes aren't worth the service.
It just shows that Idiots love to surround themselves with Like-Minded People.
Wow. I wonder if his lifestyle contributed to his astro-glide through the Chicago machine?
what is with this guy Huberman Is he the second coming of Christ?
1/24/2009 09:14:00 AM
NOOOOOO- BHO is the current
anti-christ
Understand that Ariel Sharon is a "great-uncle". Didnt know about the Rahm connection but it doesnt suprise me.
Wonder what would have happened it Hillary would have moved back to her home town and ran for senator abainst Obama?
You are one jealous fuck. 5 years experience as a patrolman. Did alot more work then half the fucks on this site. As and ADS was a supervisor did alot more supervision then half the superviros on this site. Eecutive managment experience is what is needed to run large scale burracracies such as CTA and CPS. He has that.
All I can say is you are jealous of a guy who works hard to move up the ladder. On with the lies, personal shots and outright hatred filled posts. At least in this one post you got a little bit of the truth.
1/24/2009 11:33:00 AM
You should just be happy your boyfriend Ron got you a brand new unmarked police car to park in front of your love nest.
Now go take a nap or something.
You know what... Why dont you just make him our fucking appointed Illinois Senator and call it day. That way he can collect from three differnt pensions. Huberman aka "the real police" is the brightest fucking mind in Illinois. I'm surprised he didnt get a cabinet position in Washington next to the "chosen one."
1/24/2009 12:04:00 PM
According to Terry Savage there ain't gonna be no State or County pensions for ANYone.
Ron Huberman is a prime example of a new organism -- the Pure Manager, operating in a world of theory and abstraction. They know nothing about anything they manage, yet remain salaried and secure with their Six Sigma "Black Belts."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Six_sigma
Not like when the boss started the business by digging the hole and pouring the slab first, and could run any machine in the place. Not like when the boss was "the first in the door on a man-with-a-gun call."
Not like when the boss was respected, is it?
Today? He's smooth, sleek, universal, inoffensive, indefinable...exactly what the Daley administration seems to seek out.
There used to be a few bosses at the top and many workers at the bottom. Now, the pyramid has been inverted; all we have are Hubermans on top of more Hubermans.
There are still three actual workers left in the factory, so to speak, but they're trying to get rid of them too.
Then and only then will we have the perfect manager-world as defined in the Dilbert cartoon -- "If we manage effectively enough, we can turn a profit without having any product at all."
This technique works so well that it's helped to trigger a depression.
1/24/2009 04:48:00 PM
And look what happened to Motorola!
1/24/2009 11:14:00 AM
A.L. from st. louis?
As a retired teacher, Arne Duncan couldn't have been any worse. Paul Vallas was a good Supt. of CPD. He didn't Mickey Mouse around with the kids. Couldn't read or pass the tests, you stayed behind. Only let the kids stay in bilingual education for three years. Before that some of the kids went into Bilingual Kindergarten and were still in bilingual education in eighth grade. Is it a wonder they couldn't make it in high school. The teacher couldn't promote socially. He was a good Supt. To bad Blago beat him in the primary, Illinois probably wouldn't be in the mess it's in today.
OT: Listening to Monique re: the double homicide on 15th & Clark... She SUCKS!
When I wrote "Ron Huberman is a prime example of a new organism -- the Pure Manager, operating in a world of theory and abstraction," I forgot about his separated-at-birth counterpart in city government, the all-purpose Monique Bond.
Saw her minutes ago on TV, double homicide at 15th and Clark, informing us that the dead people are dead and that there will be an investigation...a nine-month-old got blasted.
*
(They are starting to assign CTA warming buses to these affairs now, so many relations show up. Wilder and wilder, and it's still January. If this is what it's like when it's 2 degrees, how many "cooling buses" should we keep in reserve for the summer homicides? A Sno-Cone truck, perhaps? CAPS oughtta be good for something.)
The FOP is useless! They are totally dysfunctional since their implosion and inability to gather any support from their members! MD is just trying to get everyone focused on the "new schedules" and leading them away from negotiations "under the table!" He will then retire with a fat pension and a seat on the Board of Directors for all his years of "sacrifice!" Anything the FOP and the City like "IS BAD FOR YOU!"
Does he get a seperate pension for working in all these departments? Police, City Hall, CTA and now Chicago Education? He'll retire in a few short years. And like everything else Democrat-associated, no one will say anything. Another chapter in the Emperor Obama's New Clothes storybook. Who's willing to be the little boy in this story who speaks up and say "Hey! He's not wearing anything at all!"?
1/24/2009 11:29:00 AM
Laugh now. daley is grooming him for the Mayor of Chicago. mark my words
Larry Guy is officially fired. Dont do anyhying. If you do and get jammed its your own fault.
1/24/2009 10:24:00 AM
Larry Guy? who dat?
un-f believable
Rue, that last post of yours was just too damn funny! Seriously, I don't see Chicago, an overwhelmingly Catholic city, electing a Jewish Mayor. I won't say it can't happen, but I don't see it in the near future.
Nothing against Huberman, but I don't believe for a second he's prepared to take on the school job, whether he gets it or not.
Everyone knows that Duncan was just a mouthpiece for the Puppeteer on the 5th floor, and I assume Huberman is comfortable with allowing another man to pull his strings.
It might have to do with the fact that one of his two master's degrees from the University of Chicago is a MBA degree. Degrees he didn't get on the department's dime-his parents paid for it because you can't go to the University of chicago MBA school part time. Might be why he's the manager/hatchman du jour!
"whatever.
1/24/2009 02:32:00 PM"
Thanks, valley girl, for chiming in.
Now go change your jock strap.
And they wonder why CPS sucks...
"HOW DARE YOU SIR, HOW DARE YOU!
1/24/2009 01:20:00 PM"
signed,
little ronnie huberman's mommy
OT-- DOUBLE HOMICIDE
Police: Mother and infant found dead
Associated Press
8:14 PM CST, January 24, 2009
CHICAGO - Chicago police say a mother and her infant daughter have been fatally shot in an apartment on the city's near South Side....
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news
/chi-ap-il-twoslain,0,6967469.
story
"....He's got to have pictures of somebody big...."
He's got pictures of me when I'm BIG.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Don't make Ron DA LUBE Huberman mad---
You don't tug on Superman's cape.
You don't piss in the subway tubes.
You don't pull the mask off the ol' Lone Ranger, and
You don't mess around with DA LUBE.
10:23, "a nine moonth old got blasted," class act.
Hubey is just living out a fantasy just like Weis. I want to be a policeman may I dress up for the day? Now I'd like to be a teacher!
It's O.K., the students have no experience as students. Pow pow
chicachicago! lol
He has about the same qualifications for the school job as Barry has to be President...NONE
Anonymous said...
OT: Listening to Monique re: the double homicide on 15th & Clark... She SUCKS!
1/24/2009 10:02:00 PM
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You mean "When he made his discovery, he discovered......
I assume Huberman is comfortable with allowing another man to pull his strings.
1/24/2009 10:43:00 PM
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Among other things...
Oh well....another city agency to fall into ruins.
whats his educational background????
Anonymous said...
what is with this guy Huberman Is he the second coming of Christ?
I wonder what he has on Daley?
1/24/2009 09:14:00 AM
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no, obama is
i worked w/ larry in another juridiction and he was a policemans policeman.
sorry larry, you should have stayed at the second job. i too wanted to be the real police and was, for a while, anyway.
good luck, brother.
A longtime dream of mine has been to find a pair of tap shoes to fit these herculean feet of mine and tap dance on the loud marble of the Chicago Public Schools. Tap tap tap. It's starting to feel real.
Just when I need a speech.
Look fella's and ladies change is hard. But Ron and Ray H. are the type of leadership we need for the times ahead. Isreal has been dealing with terror a long time and these two are expert in the field. Ray is the real driving force in us getting those badly needed m16's and Ron is cut from same cloth. Hopefully when Supt. Weiss is finished here we get a Ron Ray team at the top. Can you imagine. What our current Supt. started these two cutting edge pros will finish. Come on people the mayor as much as we gripe knows what he is doing. If we are asked to sacrafice a little I know we will stand up to the task. And let us not forget with the current team in the White House the sky is the limit. I for one just do what Im told and trust and respect my leaders.
I saw hubbie come in and go up.
I also saw howie L. slide in behind him and also go up.
how does howie stay under the radar?
I smalled a rat right up front.
cookoo
Daley is grooming his son to be the next,think about it.He enlists in the military to gain "COMBAT EXPERIENCE" to give the appearence that he is honorable like his dad (whatta-croc),and when "DAD" can no longer function as the Mayor or no longer desires to be Mayor Jr. dickhead will step up to the plate because it is the honorable thing to do,it is what his daddy would want him to do.Mark these words: Daley dickhead Sr.wants Daley dickhead Jr. to be his successor
he's a computer genious...cpd promoted him so they wouldn't loose him to the private sector...say what you want but he's doing the job....and he could hold ten different city jobs but you can only collect 1 city pension
You are one jealous fuck. 5 years experience as a patrolman. Did alot more work then half the fucks on this site. As and ADS was a supervisor did alot more supervision then half the superviros on this site. Eecutive managment experience is what is needed to run large scale burracracies such as CTA and CPS. He has that.
All I can say is you are jealous of a guy who works hard to move up the ladder. On with the lies, personal shots and outright hatred filled posts. At least in this one post you got a little bit of the truth.
1/24/2009 11:33:00 AM
###############################
Frank Moore, is that you?
Why don't you go back to bouncer job in Vegas and leave little Ronnie to us big boys in the CPD?
Since half the kids don't graduate out of the public high school, maybe we can offer their parents 10K to move to Texas until their kids are 18.
Anonymous said...
good grief. how can you stand living in chicago?
1/24/2009 11:14:00 AM
We have no fucking choice. Work for this lousy City you have to live here. If they lifted the residency requirement for City workers, you'd see a white flight like never before.
I won't comment on his tenure at CPD, but Huberman has done pretty well at CTA. The buses are running closer to on-time, with fewer gaps. Missed bus runs caused by absent drivers are way down. And he found money that Kruesi said didn't exist to fix slow zones on the el. It's made a real difference.
Yeah, some of that is just that it became such a political problem for Daley that whoever was put in place had the reins to make a few changes for the better. But it actually happened under Huberman. After all, Weis had a similar charge, and look how horribly that's turned out. You could easily see an anti-driver-sick-day program under Huberman turning into a frickin' morale disaster, but it hasn't.
Just saying'. He's not the wunderkind, and I do have reservations about it, because he doesn't have an education background, but I think he's a better administrator than many.
Vallas didn't know education either, but a lot changed under Vallas. The district went from the worst in the nation, where most schools were led by people uninterested in education to one that merely has all the problems of an urban district.
"According to Terry Savage there ain't gonna be no State or County pensions for ANYone."
The actual Savage article is here:
http://www.suntimes.com/business/savage/1395694,illinois-pensions-battle-retirement-012409.article
She doesn't specifically mention our pension but rather the State of Illinois - County pension funds.
The most important piece of the article:
The Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund. Last year it was 100 percent, fully funded!
This plan covers the employees of 2,900 local governments - cities, villages, counties, parks, libraries, and other local districts, outside Chicago. The plan covers 177,000 active members, and has 85,000 current retirees.
Based on asset size, with $24.2 billion in assets at the start of 2008, the IMRF is the second-largest public pension in Illinois.
In 2005-07, the IMRF reached 100 percent funding level, an unprecedented accomplishment for an Illinois pension fund. Certainly, it took a hit in the market crash of 2008, but IMRF fund executive director Louis Kosiba says: "When all the numbers come in, we anticipate that IMRF will be better funded than most pension systems nationwide and statewide."
How have they managed so well since they got started in 1941? "What is unique about IMRF is that our board of trustees was given authority to set employer contribution rates, and that we have enforcement authority to COLLECT those contributions. We've used conservative actuarial principles . . . and we've been disciplined over the years about collecting the required monies."
In other words- they didn't let their pension funds get raided so they will be more stable and at a 100% funded rate- they already are better funded than all of the City of Chicago plans.
Anonymous said...
He has about the same qualifications for the school job as Barry has to be President...NONE
1/25/2009 02:44:00 AM
62,980,000+ voters think you are wrong! Time will tell.
Hey SCC did the FOP pay my dues $$$ for President Marko or any of the other lodge pooches to attend this farce? I'm told he flew out and then got shut out b/c FOP in keeping with its anti-labor platform endorsed McCain.
Trying to confirm before I blow a gasket at the next meeting. Since impeachment seems to be a popular theme in our state perhaps we need to continue the trend!
Hes going to run CPS into the ground.
He was so incompetent im shocked he didnt end up on the Obama cabinet.
What experience? Arnie Duncan wasnt even qualified to teach nd know hes the education secretary.
Only political hacks need apply for daly and obama
Anonymous said...
cooo cooo! cooo cooo!
1/24/2009 11:08:00 AM
That's silly; just silly!
Grown men acting like that.
Hubermann for mayor!!!
We need Huberman back in CPD. Then he can get a uniform and join our pension just like the other civilians. Then make hime exempt and join the gold star club. WOW. What a change since Cline left. Is anybody qualified?
Its not unusual for managers and executives of many organizations to have little or no experience doing the jobs of the people they direct.
I just don't see that aspect of this situation as being a big deal and in the real world, most of the time they can learn enough to manage things quite well, even knowing very little about how things are done.
We have spent bazillions of dollars supposedly educating and training teachers to run school systems and it has failed miserably.
I am not suggesting this guy has any chance of improving the Chicago school system, but not having a teaching certificate is not why he won't do real well at it.
Didn't the CTA just lose out on $150 million in federal money because CTA didn't have their paper work in on time?
Hubbey is the first one off the Titanic.
"....in the real world, most of the time they can learn enough to manage things quite well, even knowing very little about how things are done.
1/25/2009 06:54:00 PM"
Bullshit.
What 'real world' do you live in?
The only thing that happens, when someone in management doesn't know shit about what they're managing, is mismanagement.
Been there, seen that, dealt with it.
How, you ask?
By ignoring the idiot 'manager' and continuing to do my fucking job, the way I know it should be done.
I'm still here.
Guess who's not.
bet he's gonna try to use this toward his police pension....he'll say he's incharge of all CPS kids' security and well being. guaranteed !
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Anonymous said...
Didn't the CTA just lose out on $150 million in federal money because CTA didn't have their paper work in on time?
Hubbey is the first one off the Titanic.
1/25/2009 07:33:00 PM
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You are correct. The city took the hit on that one (as did Kruesi) but I hear the main screw up was that the CTA (and the several people Ron assigned to the program) didn't get their part of the plan to the city in time to submit the agreement to the City Council - in time to get the money. Yeah, the money they announced last April that they had.
I hear Ronny's house of cards is falling down and he desperately wants out before that happens.
Anonymous said...
he's a computer genious...cpd promoted him so they wouldn't loose him to the private sector...say what you want but he's doing the job....and he could hold ten different city jobs but you can only collect 1 city pension
1/25/2009 10:20:00 AM
LOOKS LIKE FRAN SPIELMAN IS BLOGGING AGAIN!! GO WRITE ANOTHER FEEL GOOD STORY ON POOR RONNIE YOU SUCKHOLE!
Confirmed by a Trooper that was working the Obama stuff. Lodge 7 President Mark Donahue was in DC for the inaugural events acting like a big shot. Trouble is he didn't get in anywhere. So we paid for him to go out there, since I'm sure he didn't pay himself, and all he got was disrespected and a free trip. According to my pal the troopers lodge did not waste their money. Did you say something about impeachment?
It's such a cute story, that mommy and daddy Huberman makes very very large political donations for their little boy Ronnie and he gets whatever he wants. I have personally met him on several occasions, and he one of the most condescending and arrogant people I have ever met. He actually thinks he is the hottest and most intelligent man to enter City government, and apparently Richie agrees. It's so sad, that it's funny. Chicago, gotta love it what $ can buy.
Huberman was behind a multi-million dollar procurement fraud while at OEMC. Can it be that hard to uncover? How about the city's great inspector general.
I was a supervisor for Wal-Mart, can I take his old job?? lol
Mom, Dad......
I want to be a policeman!
I want to be a Big Boss in the police department!
I want to be a OEMC director!
I want to be Mayors Chief of Staff!
I want to be in charge of CTA!
I want to be in charge of Chicago schools!
Yes, Ronnie, whatever our little boy wants we will get!
We love you son, you make us so proud!!!!
Who do we write the check out to, Richard or Dick?
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